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Tag: colon cancer

  • Today is World Cancer Day

    World Cancer Day My husband and our family continue our fight against colon cancer — 6 months away from being officially ‘in remission. In our minds and in the course of our daily lives, we have already beat this horrible disease, that does not mean it is ever far from our thoughts. It colors everything…

  • Always on my mind – Colon Cancer

  • Famous People With Colon Cancer

    Famous People With Colon Cancer. I was reading in a recent Parade Magazine about Ronald Reagan. I didn’t realize he had colon cancer, so I looked up some info on him and other ‘famous’ people who have fought colon cancer.  Sure slaps you right in the face how many wonderful, talented people cancer has taken…

  • Cancer Sucks.

    Sometimes you are going through life, all is good — you are living your life, building it from the point where you found out cancer had invited itself into your life and you hear some news that just brings it all back. It hits you like a sucker punch to your abdomen. I just heard…

  • Too young for cancer?

    Too young for cancer?. Most people who follow me know that a few years ago, my ‘too young’ husband – 37 years old – was diagnosed with stage 2 colon cancer. No family history – And just like Katherine below, his first attempts at getting it looked at were met with less severe diagnosis than…

  • Colon Cancer Research and University of Arizona!

    Researcher Awarded $1.8M to Develop Colon Cancer Therapy | UANews.org. I’m an U of Arizona alum so I am always in support of Wildcats! Arizona Cancer Center is a well known cancer research center – Congrats to Emmanuelle J. Meuillet! The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant to an Arizona Cancer…

  • 2 years livin strong!

    Walking into Georgetown Hospital after being away for 6 months, feelings of anxiety swept over me. It actually started en route. I hadn’t expected to really feel that way but I guess it makes sense. Scott and I have experienced quite a bit in hospitals in general but this was our home every other Tuesday…

  • One year livin strong…

    We have a six month checkup at G’town tomorrow AM with Dr. Marshall. We are now at 1 year post chemo – hard to believe its been a year that we completed the chemo therapy. A year to get our lives back to a comfortable norm – which is not the same norm as before…

  • Sustained Avastin aids colon cancer survival-study

    Sustained Avastin aids colon cancer survival-study | Reuters. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Colorectal cancer patients who continued treatment with Roche Holding AG’s Avastin even after their cancer worsened lived longer than those who went off the drug, according to an “observational analysis” released on Thursday.

  • 5-minute colon cancer test could save thousands of lives

    5-minute colon cancer test could save thousands of lives – USATODAY.com. LONDON (AP) — A five-minute colon cancer test could reduce the number of deaths from the disease by about 40%, a new study says. British researchers followed more than 170,000 people for about 11 years. Of those, more than 40,000 had a “flexi-scope” test,…